CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ed, LCSW, projection refers to unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else. A common example is a cheating spouse who suspects their partner is being unfaithful.

Detailed explanation-2: -Here, Freud described projection as a process of evacuating not only excitation but feelings and representations or thoughts which are linked to that excitation. What is projected is then located in the external world and may be experienced by the individual as persecutory, forming the basis of paranoia.

Detailed explanation-3: -projection, the mental process by which people attribute to others what is in their own minds. For example, individuals who are in a self-critical state, consciously or unconsciously, may think that other people are critical of them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection-attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.